Taiwan’s Ex-Presidents: A Carousel of Legal Problems
On March 14, the former president of Taiwan, Ma Ying-jeou, was charged with leaking classified information related to a...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Taiwan’s Ex-Presidents: A Carousel of Legal Problems
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Geopoliticus
The Moroccan King Dismisses an Islamist Prime Minister
On Wednesday, March 15, the King of Morocco, Mohamed VI, dismissed Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane of the leading legal...
An Update from Iraq
I have spent the past week traveling around the Kurdish Region of Iraq conducting research on the behalf of...
Trump, Tsai, and the Three Communiques: Prospects for Stability in US-China-Taiwan Relations
The Shanghai Communique of 1972 and the U.S.-China Joint Communiques of 1979 and 1982 have been essential foundations of...
Is Trump Russia’s Manchurian Candidate? No. Here’s Why
“Is Trump a Manchurian Candidate?” The Trump as “Manchurian Candidate” scenario has been a constant query for my...
Politicization of the Intelligence Community is Extremely Dangerous
I was a CIA analyst working in the Counterterrorism Center in the run-up to the Iraq war. We didn’t...
No “Hero of Haarlem” in Ankara
With Mary Mapes Dodge’s Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, the English-speaking world took to heart the tale of...
The non-“Special”-ness of LTG McMaster
Much has been made about President Trump’s selection of Army Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster as his new National Security...
National Security Advisor McMaster: The Good and Bad of Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice – General Officer Edition”
“I’ve got Captain McMaster for MilArt!” West Point cadets enrolled in Military History 302 during the early 1990’s spoke...
Clouded Reassurances in Asia
Last week, Secretary of Defense James Mattis made his first official foreign visit as a member of the Trump...